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Facing a tough decision pitting personal security against constitutional rights, a federal judge came down on the side of rights, ruling that police must have warrants before searching for guns in Chicago's public-housing developments, which have become gang- and drug-war zones. President Clinton immediately ordered the Justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week April 3 -9 | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

On this night, of early spring, When flowers bloom and children sing, A festival starts of heav'nly power, Pitting the ant with the mighty tower. For tonight, in the third month of all, Begins a tournament of basketball.

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Ode To the NCAA Tourney | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

Taking yes for an answer is not as easy as it sounds. It means celebrating individual experience even as you celebrate collective memory; acknowledging the changes of the present in full, learned sight of the unchanging cruelties of the past; believing in politics, and pitting politics against the lachrymosities of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Yes for an Answer | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

With this attitude it was natural to take pride in beating the Russians. The Winter Olympics was reduced to a grudge match pitting the United States against the Soviet Union, good against evil.

Author: By Johnny C. Ausiello, | Title: Cold War, Eh? | 2/16/1994 | See Source »

VENEZUELA. A series of attempted military coups and civil disturbances has afflicted the country; last week 123 died in a Maracaibo prison riot pitting Guajiro Indians against other prisoners. Nine prisoners and a guard died in a Caracas prison riot.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Litany of Latin American Troubles | 1/17/1994 | See Source »

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